finally sending out the belated November 2012 issue of 21st-Century Music in the post.

Swinging around,

return to Harriet for lunch at

Chevy's

and home,

taking in the beginning of the 14-hour version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945 / 1981).

At the appointed hour,

hie down 80,

picking up

Carol and, after a brief stop at the pharmacy, heading off to the Peter Tchaikovsky Nutcracker at

Oakland's

Mormon

Temple

Hill,

seemingly

transported

from

Utah,

where the

lines are long,

for dancers quite small, fulfilling the adage that, the more children onstage, the bigger the audience. Choreographer Rachel gives everyone moves that are within their ability range, and the show is quite successful in its own way, despite the pre-recorded accompaniment.

Post-

show,

in the

starry night,

decamp for Pinole Applebees, for much merriment both here and home to Harriet with more Brideshead.